Resplendent BEAUTY

Only a talented interior decorator such as Victoria Cator would have the verve to batten her sitting room walls in emerald-green velvet and declare it the perfect device for enlivening a city home. “I wanted the look to be sultry and chic,” Victoria says. “But also to hint at a country house mood.” Her pretty Edwardian mews property, fronted by a cobbled street, appears modestly proportioned from the exterior, but step over the threshold and it is a Tardis within. “The hall is deceptively wide,” she says. “On my first visit I